Basketball roundup: Cal State, Cal Poly men get wins on the road

Men’s basketball

CS San Bernardino 80, CS East Bay 73

The No. 17 Coyotes shot 50 percent for the 11th time this season and emerged with a hard-fought CCAA road win.

Senior Andrew Young scored a season-best 27 points and fellow senior Lacy Haddock followed with 17 in a game that saw CSUSB pull away late from a pesky Pioneers team that lost for the 10th time in its last 11 games.

The Coyotes (18-3, 15-2) also kept their streak of fine play on Friday night alive with their seventh victory in as many games.

Trailing 62-58 with 6:09 remaining in the game, Haddock gave the Coyotes a jump start on a successful 3-point play and Juan Martinez followed with a 3-pointer of his own for a 64-62 lead with 5:37 left.

Over the next five-plus minutes, the Coyotes held the Pioneers without a field goal and capped a 20-8 run when Taylor Statham hit a pair of free throws for a 78-70 lead with 13 seconds left.

Young hit 10-of-21 from the floor and grabbed a team-high six rebounds. Meanwhile, Haddock dished out six assists and finished 5-of-7 FGs and 7-of-8 from the line.

CSUSB finished 26-of-52 from the floor with the majority of its fire power from inside the 3-point arc. It hit just four 3-pointers, but scored 24 free throws in the seven-point win.

Jacari Whitfield led the Pioneers (7-16, 4-13) with 15 points.

Coyotes senior guard Kirby Gardner was ejected from the game with 4:47 remaining in the first half, along with CSUEB’s Gabe Kindred. Gardner will not play in tonight’s game at Cal State Monterey Bay.

Cal Poly Pomona 58, Sonoma State 47

Despite trailing by five points at halftime Friday, the No. 25 Broncos got a good second half performance and defeated the host Seawolves.

DeRonn Scott’s jump shots kept the game close for the Broncos (17-4, 15-2) early on and then a great second-half team performance on both ends of the floor helped CPP pull away.

Scott finished Friday’s road game with 22 points, 14 of which came in the first half. He also added a team-high six rebounds while Jordan Faison joined him in double figures for scoring with 13 points.

Aside from Scott, the Broncos’ offense came out a bit sluggish in the first half. With a Justin Herold dunk at the 9:32 mark, the Seawolves captured their largest lead of the game at 18-11.

CPP chipped away to make it a one-point margin on a few different occasions but an SSU three-pointer from Mike Harris with three seconds left in the half gave the Seawolves a 27-22 edge heading into the break. Of the Broncos’ nine first-half field goals, seven were from Scott.

Just eight seconds into the second half, Chad Haysbert dropped in a layup off a Bell assist and that started an astounding 19-3 run for the Broncos. Six different CPP players contributed to the scoring in that stretch, which featured a Haysbert dunk and then a Jordan Finn triple to cap it off.

That run left the Broncos with a 41-30 lead and the margin didn’t fall below seven points the rest of the way. CPP will look to continue its momentum Saturday as it’ll travel to take on San Francisco State at 7:30 p.m. The Gators cruised to a 79-48 win over Humboldt State Friday.